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actually, in the original Norse version of the mythology, Loki’s daughter Hel (no ‘a’) was in charge of Helheim, a shadowy place where the dis-honored dead go. if you didn’t die in battle, you went to Helheim. Valkyries picked up those who died in battle, and then brought them to Odin’s Valhalla to be Einherjar. dead slaves and servants went to Thor’s hall of Berlisknr, drowned sailors went to Ran’s hall (which has no name mentioned in the edda’s), etc.

aside from the Valkyries serving Odin, none of the others had a specific group of servants to gather the dead. it seems they assumed you’d go to Helheim if a valkyrie didn’t grab you from the battlefield, and Ran apparently went around grabbing drowned men herself.

the fact that Hel got all the warriors who didn’t die in battle was part of the reason Loki’s army in ragnarok would be so much larger than the army of Valhalla. Loki got all the soldiers who won battles, but died in dishonorable ways, or died from their wounds days after a battle, or died of old age after winning every battle they ever fought. Odin basically had an army of everyone who lost.

By way of explanation for my take: The Marvel Comics version of the Norse mythos has always been a bit of a variation – that’s why I specified Norse/Marvel in my episode note – and since LEGO!Loki is from the Marvel universe that’s the version I’m going with here.

It’d be interesting to see him up against a more “accurate” version of Loki…